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Hopkins County, TX

250 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46.4% rated Good, 51.2% Fair, 2.4% Poor.

250
Public bridges: 46.4%
Good condition: 2.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Hopkins County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

192nd
of 247 on Poor share: 2.4%
Poor-condition share: 250
public highway bridges: 1978
avg year built

Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.

Hopkins County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hopkins County ranks #192 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.4%). Hopkins County, Texas contains 250 public highway bridges. Roughly 46.4% are rated “Good,” 51.2% “Fair,” and 2.4% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.

Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.

Total bridges

250

Public highway bridges in Hopkins County

Good condition

46.4%

116 of 250 rated 7-9

Fair condition

51.2%

128 of 250 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.4%

6 of 250 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#192 of 247

Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 250 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

46.4% (116)

Fair

51.2% (128)

Poor

2.4% (6)

Hopkins County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,341 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 724 crossings a day against 1,782 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.

Computed over the 250 of 250 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

51.6% of Hopkins County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

129 of the 250 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 46.4% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.

Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

One structure carries 87.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

Jackson Street over Town Branch, built 1935, carries 3,810 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 4,341 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

10
1930s

7
1940s

5
1950s

34
1960s

67
1970s

9
1980s

12
1990s

29
2000s

36
2010s

36
2020s

5

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 67 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the Texas average (1980).

How Hopkins County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Texas counties nearest Hopkins County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.4% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hopkins County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Lavaca County	262	50%	47.3%	2.7%	1973
Colorado County	252	48.8%	48.8%	2.4%	1971
Hopkins County (this page)	250	46.4%	51.2%	2.4%	1978
Van Zandt County	249	38.6%	58.6%	2.8%	1977
Grimes County	245	41.2%	57.6%	1.2%	1984
Lubbock County	242	45.9%	53.7%	0.4%	1988

Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Hopkins County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Two NBI-derived peer sets for Hopkins County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (250 bridges here).

Escambia County, FL · 250 bridges
Scotts Bluff County, NE · 250 bridges
Morrow County, OH · 250 bridges
Humphreys County, TN · 250 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1978 here).

Orange County, CA · avg 1978 · 1,164 bridges
Sumner County, KS · avg 1978 · 659 bridges
Allen County, IN · avg 1978 · 613 bridges
Livingston County, IL · avg 1978 · 579 bridges

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 250 Good 116 Fair 128 Poor 6

All bridges (250)

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Hopkins County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Hopkins County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,341 vehicle crossings a day

51.6% of Hopkins County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 87.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Hopkins County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (250)

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